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on feeding, “howto procure British birds,” and on hand-rearing

is minute and practical, and therefore valuable.


We are glad to find that Dr. Bradburn does not encourage

the capture of those birds which can not be hand-reared and when

captured seldom survive long. The little volume has good

illustrations of forty-six species, and we can generally recom¬

mend it to beginners in this special branch of aviculture.



ZOO NOTES.


By J. Lewis BonhoTE.


VI.—FEBRUARY.


Feb. 5 i Spanish Blue Magpie— Cyanopolius cooki


Spain. Western Aviary


,, io 3 Indian Dt^'al Birds— Copsychus saularis ,, ,,


„ 14 1 King Vulture— Gypagus papa Rio Purus. Eastern Aviary.


I Weka Rail— Ocydromus Australis


New Zealand. ,, ,,


,, 20 I Red-crested Cardinal— Paroaria cucullata


South America. Western Aviary.


1 Undulated Grass Parrakeet— Melopsittacus undulatus


Australia. Parrot House.


,, 23 I Indian Darter— Plotus melanogaster


India. Fish House.


I Indian Pied Hornbull— Anthracoceros tnalabaricus


India. Eastern Aviary.


I Jackal Buzzard— Buteo jacal S. Africa. Kites Aviary.


Once again the number of arrivals this month leaves me

practically nothing to write about; none of them calling for any

special comment. My visit this month was, however, made in

delightful warm, spring weather, and the birds generally were

looking their best, although as j^et, there were no signs of

breeding. I went round the new Crane House, built some four

years ago, which contained a very fine collection of Cranes,

Emus, Cassowaries, and Ostriches. The pens are all small,

mostly containing a pair, or perhaps only a single bird, which

one can see and observe in comfort. This brings me to the

question of foreign Zool. Gardens as compared with our own ; I

have visited a fair number of European ones, and the great

difference between the British and the foreign is, that in the

former one sees fine and commodious buildings, and in the latter

fine specimens in small and unpretentious aviaries, I do not

mean to imply that there are no good specimens in Loudon, for

of course there are hundreds, but the fact remains, that with all



